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SentinelOne raises $200M from VCs in latest big cybersecurity round
Less than a year after landing $120 million in funding from a consortium led by Insight Partners, SentinelOne Inc. today announced that it has closed an additional $200 million funding round also led by Insight. Other existing SentinelOne backers participated as well, including Vista Equity Partners, Tiger Global, Qualcomm Inc.’s venture capital arm and The Westly ...
Google Cloud adds beefy AMD-powered N2D instances with 200+ virtual processors
Google LLC today added a new instance series to its cloud platform that runs on seven-nanometer server processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Epyc Rome line. The instances, branded as the N2D series, are the most powerful general-purpose virtual machines Google has on offer and are promised to be more efficient than existing instances that ...
Qualcomm’s new 5-nanometer X60 modem chip will power next-gen 5G phones
Qualcomm Inc. has a new 5G modem chip for smartphones that’s the first in the industry to feature a more efficient five-nanometer architecture and promises up to double the connection speeds in some cases. Dubbed the X60, the modem was unveiled this morning. The fact that Qualcomm is using a five-nanometer process means the chip ...
As more enterprises adopt AI, AWS’ ML Solutions Lab passes 175 customers
Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided a rare glimpse into the growth of its artificial intelligence business by sharing some figures for the ML Solutions Lab, the in-house AI consultancy it set up in 2017. Michelle Lee, the vice president who leads the ML Solutions Lab, disclosed in a blog post that the group has ...
Jeff Bezos launches $10B Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change
Amazon.com Inc. founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos today announced on social media that he’s setting up a $10 billion philanthropic fund to support climate action. The Bezos Earth Fund will be personally financed by Bezos (pictured), the world’s richest man with a fortune estimated at $130 billion by Bloomberg. The Amazon CEO wrote in ...
PullRequest acquires Moonlight to boost its AI bug hunting engine
PullRequest Inc., a code review startup backed by Google LLC and Y Combinator, today said it has acquired fellow startup Moonlight Work Inc. to advance its plans of making software development more automated using artificial intelligence. Austin, Texas-based PullRequest operates a “code review as a service” platform that helps enterprise software teams find bugs in ...
Tesla prices secondary stock offering, set to raise as much as $2.3B
Tesla Inc. today disclosed the pricing for its planned secondary stock offering, telling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing that it will sell 2.65 million shares at $767 apiece. That would work out to a cash haul of about $2.03 billion. Underwriters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have the option to buy 397,500 ...
Arista acquires multicloud software-defined network provider Big Switch Networks
Arista Networks Inc. has acquired Big Switch Networks Inc., an early player in the software-defined networking market that raised more than $120 million from investors such as Khosla Ventures. The terms of the deal, which Arista announced on Thursday afternoon, were not disclosed. Reports of the possible sale emerged last month. Santa Clara, California-based Arista ...
Google’s $2.6B Looker acquisition closes after winning UK approval
Google LLC’s acquisition of Looker Data Sciences Inc. has officially closed, a little over eight months after it announced it would acquire the data visualization provider for $2.6 billion. The search giant originally told investors it expected the deal to complete before the end of 2019. However, the plan hit a snag in December when ...
Court pauses Microsoft’s JEDI Pentagon cloud contract work in response to Amazon suit
A Federal Court of Appeals judge today temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract that was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year. The Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative or JEDI contract had been expected to be awarded to Amazon Web Services Inc. The Amazon.com Inc. cloud company last year sued the Department of Defense ...